ETC5513: Collaborative and Reproducible Practices

This unit develops teamwork skills, through instruction on reproducibility and version control to conduct collaborative data analysis. These skills are practised in a team setting with a data analysis project.

Learning outcomes

  1. Develop skills to create reproducible data analyses
  2. Understand the operation of version control systems
  3. Utilise version control to integrate data analysis efforts of team members
  4. Effectively work with a group to construct a collaborative data story

Teachers

Weekly schedule

  • 2 hour workshop, Mondays 5pm-7pm each week
  • 1 hour workshop, Mondays 7pm-8pm each week
  • 1 hour tutorial, one of:
    • Thursday 4pm-5pm
    • Friday 3pm-4pm
    • Friday 4pm-5pm

Consultation

  • Michael Lydeamore: Thursday 1pm-2pm hybrid
  • Naveen Kaushik: Tuesday 4pm-5.30pm online
Week Date Topic Workshop Tutorial
1 02 Mar Introduction to collaborative and reproducible practices Workshop 1 Tutorial 1
2 09 Mar Reproducible reports using Quarto Workshop 2 Tutorial 2
3 16 Mar Introduction to version control systems: git and GitHub Workshop 3 Tutorial 3
4 23 Mar Reproducible reporting using Quarto, git and GitHub Workshop 4 Tutorial 4
5 30 Mar Deeper git knowledge, stashing and tools Workshop 5 Tutorial 5
06 Apr Mid-semester break
6 13 Apr Reproducible reporting and version control systems Workshop 6 Tutorial 6
7 20 Apr Undoing, exporing and cleaning with git Workshop 7 Tutorial 7
8 27 Apr Referencing, large files, and GitHub Issues Workshop 8 Tutorial 8
9 04 May Finding bugs, and building presentations Workshop 9 Tutorial 9
10 11 May Keeping environments separate and reproducible Workshop 10 Tutorial 10
11 18 May Docker: The gold standard of reproducibility Workshop 11 Tutorial 11

Assignments

Refer to Moodle for due dates and submission information.